Doha: Qatari newspapers unanimously condemned in their Tuesday editorials the assassination of journalists in Gaza, a crime that adds to the hundreds of similar crimes deliberately perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces with the aim of silencing the voice of truth and preventing journalists from conveying the brutal crimes taking place in the Gaza Strip.
According to Qatar News Agency, the newspapers emphasized that what happened is clear evidence of a complete collapse of the international system of values and laws, and a new, blatant and deliberate attack on press freedom. This attack must be met not only with condemnation and denunciation, but also with actions that will prevent the recurrence of these heinous, brutal crimes.
For its part, Al-Arab newspaper said the assassination of journalists in Gaza is no longer an isolated incident but a systematic behavior that reflects the occupation government's brutal desire to erase the truth. The paper pointed out that Sunday evening marked a dark night in the history of journalism due to the Israeli occupation's assassination of Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa, after they were deliberately targeted. They joined a long list of martyrs who paid with their lives to uncover the truth about Israeli crimes in Gaza.
Al-Arab noted that HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani emphasized that this deliberate targeting does not obscure the horrific facts, but rather exposes the extent of the crimes committed in the Gaza Strip. Journalists in Gaza were not merely reporters of events, but witnesses to history, living consciences that refused to side with anything but the truth, Al-Arab underlined. Their lenses captured what political language could not express, and their words penetrated the media blockade to reach the hearts of millions around the world, considering their targeting a flagrant violation of all international conventions, most notably the Geneva Conventions, which guarantee the protection of journalists in conflict zones, the newspaper concluded.
In turn, Al-Raya newspaper warned that this was not the first crime nor would it be the last as long as both sides of the equation remained present on the scene. On the one hand, there were witnesses to the truth from among the media, including journalists and photographers, who were transmitting scenes of killing, ethnic cleansing, starvation, and displacement in the stricken Gaza Strip. The other side was the Israeli criminality represented by the extremist and incitement government and the most brutal, abusive, and massacre-ridden army in the world.
The newspaper stated that the racist extremist occupation does not want any other narrative than its own, which continuously distorts the facts. Palestinian journalists refuted the occupation's narrative with conclusive evidence and clear scenes many times, and journalists in Gaza and the rest of the Palestinian territories, with their usual professionalism and expertise in conveying the truth, are now threatening the criminal occupation government, especially since the occupation has been losing the media war since the first day of the aggression, and the global streets have mobilized against the massacres and ethnic cleansing thanks to the images coming out of Gaza.
Concluding its editorial, Al-Raya said after the world saw through the false and deceptive narrative of the Israeli propaganda, terror spread among the occupation's pillars and they aimed to silence the media and prevent the truth from coming out of Gaza to the global stage. This was after journalists and media crews conveyed the horror and hell of the Israeli crimes that are shameful and their deliberate killing of innocent and defenseless people in their homes and refugee camps and while they were waiting to receive aid.